Final submissions for the Visualize This! Challenge are due no later than Friday, November 30 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Hosted by WestGrid and the Compute Canada Visualization Team, Visualize This! is a Canada-wide competition that celebrates the innovative ways visualization can help researchers explore datasets and answer important scientific questions.
DatasetsThis year the Visualize This! Challenge is comprised of two separate competitions:
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On Friday, Nov 2, WestGrid had a Community Town Hall for a special presentation on Compute Canada's 2019 Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC)*. WestGrid's Director of Operations and Lead of the RAC Technical Review, Patrick Mann, shared the latest RAC updates, submission best practices, and advice for increasing the likelihood of a successful submission.
If you were unable to attend this session, you can...
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The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2019 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, from June 2-4 (https://www.congress2019.ca/).
Proposals for papers (20 min.), digital demonstrations, and panels (2-6 speakers for a 90-minute session) will be accepted until 17 December 2018 and...
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WestGrid is asking all advanced research computing (ARC) users, past, present and future to tell us what resources, services and support are most needed to better enable researchers in Canada, today and tomorrow.
The primary purpose of the survey is to help guide WestGrid's strategic planning and redevelopment, which will be happening over the next 6-12 months. Our main goal moving forward is to enhance our support and services to advance research...
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Earlier this month, Kamil Marcinkowski, WestGrid Site Lead at the University of Alberta, gave a webinar on ‘Common job submission errors and how to avoid them’ for researchers using Compute Canada systems.
This session was targeted at users who are familiar with submitting jobs on Compute Canada systems, but who could use some tips on using the scheduler more effectively. He shared...
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Our ‘Users in the News’ series showcases and celebrates researchers who have recently made headlines, from local papers to international newswires. Did we miss anything? Send your news to info@westgrid.ca.
October New AI-based video system helps seniors stay safe and independentfolio - October 25, 2018
WestGrid user Irene Cheng from the University of Alberta was featured in...
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Join us for a one-hour webinar where Falk Herwig will share more information on how he achieved groundbreaking simulations of the life of a star, and how high performance computing (HPC) has been an essential tool for his projects.
DetailsWednesday, November 14, 2018
10:00-11:00am Pacific
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At the University of...
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A Dell 43" 4K multi-client monitor has been added to the 2018 Visualize This! Challenge prize list thanks to a...
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Join WestGrid for our next Community Town Hall on Friday, Nov 2, for a special presentation on Compute Canada's 2019 Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC)*. WestGrid's Director of Operations and Lead of the RAC Technical Review, Patrick Mann, will be sharing the latest RAC updates, submission best practices, and advice for increasing the...
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